title: Potential strategies to eliminate built environment disparities for disadvantaged and vulnerable communities.
abstract: In 2006, the Federal Collaboration on Health Disparities Research (FCHDR) identified the built environment as a priority for eliminating health disparities, and charged the Built Environment Workgroup with identifying ways to eliminate health disparities and improve health outcomes. Despite extensive research and the development of a new conceptual health factors framework, gaps in knowledge exist in areas such as disproportionate environmental and community hazards, individual and cumulative risks, and other factors. The FCHDR provides the structure and opportunity to mobilize and partner with built environment stakeholders, federal partners, and interest groups to develop tools, practices, and policies for translating and disseminating the best available science to reduce health disparities.
authors.affiliation: Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, USA. hutch.dan@epamail.epa.gov
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Hutch
authors.forename: Karen E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Bouye
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Skillen
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Latoria
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Whitehead
authors.forename: Jamila R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rashid
mesh_terms: D003210:Concept Formation; D004779:Environment Design; D006078:Government Programs; D006291:Health Policy; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D011204:Poverty Areas; D012106:Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D014481:United States